Apical membrane antigen 1 mediates apicomplexan parasite attachment but is dispensable for host cell invasion

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bargieri, Daniel Y ^a   Andenmatten, Nicole ^b   Lagal, Vanessa ^c   Thiberge, Sabine ^a   Whitelaw, Jamie A ^b   Tardieux, Isabelle ^c   Meissner, Markus ^b   Ménard, Robert ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; INVASIN;

ANTIGEN; CYTOLOGY; MALARIA; MEMBRANE; PROTEIN;

APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; SPOROZOITE; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALARIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84892638781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3552     Document Type: Article

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